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According to mission planners for the International Space Station (ISS), the schedule for today's deorbiting of the first unmanned cargo vehicle of the Japanese space agency may be tweaked a little bit, on account of a large piece of space debris, which is flying too close to the orbital outpost. Original plans ... |
30 October 2009
03:43 GMT |
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A new comparative research has revealed the fact that the main factor creating differences between fish production levels in clear mountain lakes and brown forest lakes is light, and not access to nutrients, such as previously held. The counter-intuitive discovery was made by experts at the Climate Impacts Research C... |
24 July 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Since the 1960s, the amount of debris in Earth's orbit has increased linearly, NASA experts have recently said. The danger of collision between sensitive spacecraft sent to orbit, including high-tech satellites, space shuttles, and the International Space Station (ISS), has since prompted drastic modifications i... |
29 April 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Not long ago, when humans visited the Moon, there were still many theories related to the way it formed, but soon they were ruled out, one by one. For instance, one stated that it formed, like the Earth, from the accretion of space dust into increasingly larger lumps, another stated that it was born in a di... |
12 December 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The human-generated thrash that's been increasingly filling the orbit of the Earth for decades now turns more and more into a serious problem. Since it is already past the phase of saying a lot about us as a race, something must be done before spacecraft and satellites are actually affected by it. Thus, proper i... |
25 November 2008
10:23 GMT |
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The number of space objects that humans have created has grown a lot within the recent decades and will be exponentially increasing in the future. With all the planets and celestial phenomena that should be explored and observed, space missions (such as satellites and stations) are in bloom. Also, as overdue or unnee... |
10 November 2008
04:03 GMT |
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A recent study used a computer simulation in order to prove that the rings of Saturn had formed billions of years ago, when the solar system was young, rather than 100 million years ago, while dinosaurs were still alive and well. Also, the research points out that they are three times more massive than previously tho... |
24 September 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Why study the star formation process in individual galaxies when the debris left behind by colliding galaxies makes matters so much simpler? In a press conference at the American Astronomical Society, Mederic Boquien from the University of Massachusetts showed that the study of the star formation process is much more... |
4 June 2008
10:25 GMT |
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A 400 MB hard-disk drive manufactured by Seagate has been recovered from the wreckage left by the Columbia space shuttle. The ship has been completely destroyed by an explosion during reentry on February 1, 2003. There was nothing left of the ship and all the seven crew members had been killed by the blast. However, ... |
6 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He beli... |
28 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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The Russian Roskosmos agency was recently sued by an inhabitant of Russia's Altai region for 42,000 US dollars, in compensation for the fact that a 3 meters piece of metal from one of its space rockets fell on his property, near the outdoor toilet. Shepherd Boris Urmatov lives in a area which is located right in... |
27 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Good news for NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. The destruction of the USA-193 spy satellite last month left a minimal field of debris in Earth's orbit, according to Rear Admiral Alan Hicks, responsible for the Pentagon's Aegis ballistic missile defense program. In the outcome of the report release, Admir... |
20 March 2008
06:56 GMT |
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The Ursids meteors shower usually begins on the 17th of December every year, and lasts for more than a week, until 25th or 26th of December. Its name comes from the point where it seems to radiate, which is somewhere near the star Beta Ursae Minor, in the constellation of Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Dipper. ... |
13 December 2007
07:45 GMT |
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It's a common sight in numerous science fiction stories and movies: a planet with two suns (often of drastically different colors) producing double shadows, multiple sunrises and sunsets and other exotic phenomena that would appear utterly alien to us Earthlings, like Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine... |
26 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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It's true, the three members of the crew on the International Space Station will have some nasty work to do during a spacewalk scheduled for July 23, because NASA realized it was time for a bit of cleaning, so they're getting rid of more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear in and around the station.... |
20 July 2007
09:05 GMT |
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Astronomers have just found an unusual blue halo around a distant star that looks like a glowing cosmic needle. This enlarged debris disk could point at hidden planets, since it is a well-known fact that they are leftovers from planet formation processes.The young star is called HD 15115, observed using NASA's ... |
20 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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From time to time, scientists get a little bit of help from Lady Luck and when this happens, they discover something amazing. This is exactly what happened after a forest fire more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.A group of geologists were forced to find alternative routes for their field trip, since the fir... |
16 July 2007
10:20 GMT |
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This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites. During this spacewalk, the two astronauts... |
7 June 2007
08:55 GMT |
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This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites.It took the spacewalkers five and a half h... |
31 May 2007
08:16 GMT |
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